Author: Darren
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You’re in the Right Job!
How long will people need your job? Not a bad question of you have another 20 to 30 years to go before you retire. Jobs are changing and as the article below explains almost 80 percent of the Australian workforce is in the service industry. So your a trainer, educator, coach. How does your job…
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Getting more time in 2019
I’m delivering some time management training soon and the article below has some good references to time management for 2019. Really they are good tips for any year. I like the time tracking activity which I have done before and will do again this year. Read the article here
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Trust
I am delivering some training over the next few weeks and one of the topics is trust. It is always an area of great interest to me because on the face of it is so complex. But then, there are some simple principles as well. I really like the article below as it breaks down…
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Happy Workplaces
Are you happy at work? I go to a lot of workplaces and unfortunately I don’t see too many happy people. There’s some out there but not many. A lot of the training I do around leadership is meant to assist in creating productive, happy workplaces but too many managers and leaders struggle to change…
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Sunday Zephyr – Cheese!
How’s your Sunday going? Is it just me, or is there a lot of coverage of cheese lately. There is even a cheese show on SBS. I’m not complaining as I love cheese. Maybe today is a good day to get out there and eat some cheese. If you ever wanted to know the history…
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Negative Emotions
I am currently completing a program on edX titled Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work. Good course with plenty of very interesting information and current research. You can still enrol and it is free. I am just going to link you to one article that is part of the program which I really liked. It…
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Psychological Safety
I have talked a lot about the concept of psychological safety in my training for years, especially as I now deliver a fair amount of training to NSW Health employees who have a value called openness which to me is the same as psychological safety. I always thought that this concept came from studies that…
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Sunday Zephyr – Your Year, This Year, Why Not?
How’s your Sunday going? Recovering from a great Australia Day? Thinking about this year? I’ll let the video below do the talking. Do It – what ever it is.
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Moving forward for 2019
Please read the interesting article below about a significant experiment in school education design. Good to see that something is happening in this space rather than some of the stupid moves that have been made over the last 5 plus years (don’t get me started). Read the article here So when is the VET sector…
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Learned Helplessness
I often ask people if they have heard the term learned helplessness and yes, I am overwhelmingly surprised by the answer “No”. The video below explains one way of looking at this but it is also applicable to management/leadership. Managers’ egos like being asked questions about how to do things. You feel good when you…